Laying Foundations

Laying Foundations is an unusual back to the land story about a ghost of a house and the couple who breathed life into her. Mismatched in every way -- socially intellectually racially -- they were unlikely partners. And with only modest carpentry skills they made an improbable construction crew. They began renovations at the worst time of year setting up camp in the kitchen of an abandoned farmhouse without electricity or running water just as winter struck the northeast. The odds against success were high. The odds against their surviving as a couple were even higher. This is the story of their year.